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===== Maximize Screen Display =====

The default display is shown here:

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The display can be maximized to this. 

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Gone are the **Menu Bar** (at the top), the **Status Bar** (at the bottom) and the **Toolbar**.

Loss of the **Toolbar**? Not really … just click on the **icon** in the upper left corner to display the **Toolbar** for a specified time.

And the **location, COG and SOG** that are displayed in the **Status Bar** can be displayed on the **Dashboard** plugin.

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**SETTINGS**

The settings to maximize the display are on **Options/User Interface** page.



I prefer to increase the **Toolbar auto-hide** time to 4 sec ILO the default of 2 sec.

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**CAUTION**: Do not check the ‘Enable Touchscreen interface’. A bug In **OpenCPN 4.6.1** will cause the chart ‘piano keys’ to sometimes turn black.

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Terry Sargent 14 May 2017

